BROOMFIELD, Colo. – WEC featherweight contender Mark Hominick didn’t show up to Thursday’s post-WEC 51 press conference with a cast on his hand.

Then again, he didn’t wear one to that evening’s fight with Leonard Garcia, either.

But despite the obvious lack of medical supplies surrounding his jab hand, Hominick revealed following his split-decision win over Leonard Garcia that he outstruck his opponent for 15 minutes despite suffering a broken hand several days prior to the contest.

“It was my thumb,” Hominick told MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com). “I’ll have to get a cast, but in four weeks, it will be all OK. The last hard day (of practice), someone just rolled on my thumb, and it rolled all the way back. I just taped it up.”

Despite the obvious disadvantage of trying to win a fight with a bum paw, Hominick said it never crossed his mind once to withdraw from the contest.

“I had a strong mental edge going into the fight,” said Hominick, who opened the Versus-televised broadcast from the 1STBANK Center in Broomfield, Colo. “There was nothing that was going to stop me. I knew I was going to fight regardless.”

And fight he did. Hominick (19-8 MMA, 3-2 WEC) stood toe to toe with Garcia (14-6-1 MMA, 4-3-1 WEC) throughout the contest. The Canadian delivered jab after jab with the injured hand while avoiding the haymakers Garcia was firing off at every corner.

And while Hominick has shown capable submission skills throughout his 27-fight career, the Team Tompkins fighter said he never once considered bringing the fight to the floor.

“That’s the type of fighter both Leonard and I are,” Hominick said. “To stand there and trade, that’s our M.O.s.

“We knew exactly what our gameplans were going to be. Mine was more technical, and he was going to try and make it a brawl.”

The technical fighter won out.

Despite the impressive performance, Hominick actually expressed some displeasure in his approach. While Hominick picked his fight opponent apart, the 28-year-old said he had expected to stay a little more active.

“What we wanted to do was frustrate him in hitting him first and making him throw and miss and counter,” Hominick said. “I was hoping I could have countered a little bit more. I was countering with single punches, and it should have been twos and threes. But that was the gameplan – to just get in his face and swing off that.”

Despite Hominick’s perceived shortcomings, most observers believed he deserved more than a split-decision result (MMAjunkie.com actually scored the bout 30-27 in his favor). Nevertheless, Hominick, who’s only been to a decision five times in his 27 career outings, said he was anything but certain.

“You never know how the judges are seeing it,” Hominick said. “You’re kind of holding your breath. When you hear the other guy gets one of the cards, it’s like, ‘Oh, man.’ You swallow your heart.

“It makes you want to finish the fights, for sure.”

Hominick is now riding a four-fight win streak that includes three-straight victories in the WEC cage. They have the well-rounded competitor firmly in 145-pound title-shot discussions. The only man to beat Hominick in his past seven fights is fellow top featherweight Josh Grispi.

Riding high on confidence, Hominick said he’s comfortable bidding next for either the title or revenge, whichever the WEC sees most fit.

“I know there’s no one in this division that brings to the table what I do – my technical ability and what I bring on the feet,” Hominick said. “There’s no one in this division that brings that. I do bring a different element compared to a lot of different guys.

“Josh Grispi is one of those guys that’s been a really bitter pill for me to swallow. I haven’t been able to get over that fight, and I would love to get that opportunity one time. But if you’re not in this sport to fight for a title, you picked the wrong game.”

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